Tuesday, December 9, 2025

BSJG: Ooops!

 

You might have noticed that in the previous post (see "Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit [Again]") that all of my games that I cited had links to earlier posts here - except one.

How could I have missed sharing perrypawnpusher - zmagic, blitz, FICS, 2007 (1/2 - 1/2, 51) ?

I consulted The Database (with 8,250 games with the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit, by the way) and found my answer.

Here is the final position of the game

perrypawnpusher - zmagic, blitz, FICS 2007

With an overwhelming material advantage, I had just played 51.Kh3, creating a stalemate position.

Ooops!

With my King at h4, I could have played 51.Qb1+ Kg2 52.Qf5 Kh1 53.Qh3 checkmate.


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